In the Windows compatibility centre there about are 79 Sony devices listed as being compatible with Windows. One of which is the Sony Optiarc AD-7580A DVD Burner.
In my ACER 7551 laptop I have an Optiarc DVD RW AD-7580S-S2. When I ran the compatibility check I did not get oops your DVD device is not compatible so I went ahead and upgraded from Windows 8.1 to Windows 10.
After doing that the DVD device is listed as an unknown device so it does not work anymore and it is not shown as a drive in explorer.
The device according to Sony is a regular ATAPI device that does not need a driver, because it is natively supported by Windows. That is true up to 8.1 but apparently not true for the greatest Windows ever. Bummer.
So my question is what do I need to do to get the drive to work again if anything.
My other question is when will this device be added to the list that Windows 10 recognizes. It seems a bit strange that older Sony models are supported but not this one.
Every now and again I get a message from Windows that I need to complete installing the software for the device. What can I say….
Let me know thanks.
